the caliph's vizier marches on and takes Khuzistan

مسير وزير الخليفة إلى خوزستان وملكها

c. 1194 CE · 590 AH

Khuzistan (al-Ahwaz)

Al-Nasir sent his vizier against Khuzistan and took it — the castle of Susiyan ibn Shamla falling to Baghdad when its dead lord sons quarreled and one wrote the caliph offering the keys 1.

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1180119012001210 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks

Summary

The vizier of al-Nasir marched to Khuzistan and took it after the sons of Susayan ibn Shamla fell out. One of them wrote to the caliph offering to hand over the fortress to him. 1

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Khuzistan (al-Ahwaz)
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al-Nasir li-Din Allah Ahmad ibn al-Mustadi'

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Abu al-Hayja sent against Hamadan· Abu al-Mukhtar's Satire on the Ahwaz Officials· The Asawira's Conversion Compact· the caliph army routed by Sultan Tughril· Death of caliph al-Nasir li-Din Allah· Death of caliph al-Nasir's son· death of al-Mustaḍīʾ — the forty-seven-year caliphate of al-Nāṣir begins· Killing of Sultan Tughril III, last Seljuk sultan in Iraq

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  1. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p. 234-235
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